(continued from GO Luvian Update)
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable GU originally published at 61 - The Syllable GU : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).
Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.
There is first a scanned image of a "syllabic" grid excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.
The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.
The Syllable GU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
ΓΥ GU (see also GO) The concept here is “joints, bones, bent”. γύης "the curved piece of wood in a plough, to which the share was fitted, the tree" at the joint. “thigh bone with meat” | Cypriot syllabary no comparable sign _________ Indo-European e.g. Latvian “bones | Linear B Currently read as QO � �(32) GU curved wood in plough (+ share) | Phaistos Disk � � GU “joints” “bones” | No comparable Axe sign __________ Egyptian The Egyptian hieroglyph “leg bone with meat” to the right is called the hieroglyph. It stood for ancestry and inheritance and was an important sign | No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian Jsw Luvian 2 HU plow share | Sumerian GURUM GAM “bent” Sumerian tuKUL viz. “thigh bone” |
